Abstract
According to the The Sun , ‘a TEEN shooter went on a bloody rampage at a German high school today killing 15 people before shooting himself during a gunfight with cops’. ‘Police said the classrooms were “running with blood”.’ ‘Smiling happily for the camera, these are three of the girls shot dead by a crazed gunman at a German school.’ ‘I was shot 3 times … Chantal slumped dead by the door.’ ‘Click here to see the latest pictures from the scene!’1 In the morning of 11 March, a 17-year-old teenager went on a shooting spree at his former secondary school in Winnenden near Stuttgart, southwest Germany. The amok2 resulted in 15 deaths, followed by the suicide of the perpetrator, who had graduated from this school 1 year before. Beneath the speculation that—given the wrong circumstances—any of us is capable of running amok,3 from a psychiatric point of view, it seems that the dynamics of school shooting are similar to the mechanics that govern …
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